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Review of ‘The Scarlet Letter’

Title color is not the only significant thing shared by Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, two wildly different American novels from different periods of the 19th century.

They also share a preoccupation with guilt in Red Badge Henry Fleming's guilt over not living up to his ideal…

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